American Civil War 365 Days

A compilation of more than 500 illustrations drawn from the unparalleled Civil War collections of the Library of Congress, The American Civil War: 365 Days comprises a vivid visual history of one of the most tumultuous and pivotally important eras in the history of the United States. From pre-war verbal clashes over the South's "peculiar institution" of slavery, through the opening shots at Fort Sumter and early battles that smashed the assumption that the war would be short; through the huge, brutal clashes at Shiloh, Gettysburg, and the Union's 1864 Overland Campaign and the North's gradual acceptance of African American soldiers; to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the assissination of Abraham Lincoln, and the continuing reverberations of the war, The American Civil War constitutes a telling mosaic describing America's most costly and rending conflict.

The book is introduced by Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War and Lee and His Army in Confederate History and editor of the "Civil War in America" series at the University of North Carolina Press. Text by Margaret E. Wagner, coauthor and coeditor of The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, places the images in context and encompasses many quotations from Civil War figures. The wide variety of images include drawings by Civil War artist-correspondents; contemporary photographs by Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julian Vannerson, and others; maps drawn during the war by talented Confederate topographical engineer Jedediah Hotchkiss; contemporary color lithographs; as well as woodcuts from Civil War-era illustrated newspapers, the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address, theatrical posters, and recruiting broadsides.

Author/Creator: Margaret E. Wagner

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Library of Congress